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UNIT 1
IN PUBLIC EYE
READING
1 Read the web-page and find the connections between:
Paparazzo → scooter
A photograph → a million dollars
Tom Cruise → a tunnel in Paris
Madonna → 130 kph
Alec Baldwin → a black eye
George Clooney → a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
The hunters & the hunted
This page has been created to air concerns over the ever-growing problem of an
aggressive breed of photographer known as paparazzi.
PAPARAZZI
The term 'paparazzi' comes from a character called Paparazzo in the Fellini film,
La Dolce Vita, who rode around on a scooter taking photographs of the rich and
famous. Modern day paparazzi take photographs of famous people, hoping to get
them in an unflattering or compromising pose. The photograph is then sold for an
enormous sum of money, sometimes close to a million dollars, to the tabloid
press.
Some people say that celebrities are public property and that this invasion of
privacy is to be expected - 'that's show business', they say. I think that this is true
up to a point, but celebrities are being followed, harassed, chased, provoked and
spied on in their own homes. That's not show business, that's criminal.
Unnecessary risks
• Tom Cruise has been pursued at high speed through the tunnel in Paris where
Princess Diana was killed.
• When Madonna was promoting Evita in Rome, she had to drive away at 130
kph with her baby in the car because she was being chased. The paparazzi didn't
even give her time to strap the baby into the car.
Invasion of privacy
• Alec Baldwin gave a paparazzo a black eye when he filmed him and his wife,
Kim Basinger, returning to their Hollywood home with their new baby. Baldwin
was arrested and charged with assault, but he was later acquitted.
• Cindy Crawford has been filmed in her bathroom from over a kilometre away
with a huge telephoto lens.
• When Princess Diana's father died, a paparazzo was waiting outside her hotel -
she tearfully begged him to leave her alone, but the pictures were printed in the
national newspapers the next day.
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